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Breaking chemoresistance and radioresistance with 213Bianti-CD45 antibodies in leukemia cells

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Cancer Res, 67 (5): 1950-1958 (March 2007)
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-3569

Abstract

Chemoresistance and radioresistance are considered one of the primary reasons for therapeutic failure in leukemias and solid tumors. Targeted radiotherapy using monoclonal antibodies radiolabeled with alpha-particles is a promising treatment approach for high-risk leukemia. We found that targeted radiotherapy using monoclonal CD45 antibodies radiolabeled with the alpha-emitter (213)Bi ((213)Bianti-CD45) induces apoptosis, activates apoptosis pathways, and breaks beta-irradiation-, gamma-irradiation-, doxorubicin-, and apoptosis-resistance in leukemia cells. In contrast to beta-irradiation-, gamma-irradiation-, and doxorubicin-mediated apoptosis and DNA damage, (213)Bianti-CD45-induced DNA damage was not repaired, and apoptosis was not inhibited by the nonhomologous end-joining DNA repair mechanism. Depending on the activation of caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9, (213)Bianti-CD45 activated apoptosis pathways in leukemia cells through the mitochondrial pathway but independent of CD95 receptor/CD95 ligand interaction. Furthermore, (213)Bianti-CD45 reversed deficient activation of caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9, deficient cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, and deficient activation of mitochondria in chemoresistant and in radioresistant and apoptosis-resistant leukemia cells. These findings show that (213)Bianti-CD45 is a promising therapeutic agent to break chemoresistance and radioresistance by overcoming DNA repair mechanisms in leukemia cells and provide the foundation for discovery of novel anticancer compounds.

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